Kriss Kross - Emily (free children's online books txt) 📗

/> Rose: (thinks) We? What is he suggesting?
Hanataro: Just a thought…
Hanataro shifts uncomfortably.
Rose: My father, he made me become a singer when I was young. I like singing, just not when your father is making you.
Hanataro: Will you sing something for me?
Rose’s face turns red.
Rose: Ah! I-I-I couldn’t!
Hanataro: What are you embarrassed to?
Rose: A-a-a…
Hanataro laughs.
Hanataro: I was just kidding. You don’t have to if you don’t want.
Rose: (nervously) Oh… okay...ha-ha…
Rose: When do they serve meals?
Hanataro: They only serve at dinner, but if you get hungry for blood, they have room service.
Rose: I think I might try some blood. The sandwich didn’t make me feel much better.
Hanataro: We can eat human food, but it doesn’t do anything for us. Are you sure you’re ready to try some?
Rose nods.
Hanataro strolls over to the phone and dials a number.
Hanataro: Yes, this is room 26789. We need two cups and some blood over here. No, regular. Thank you.
Hanataro: They’re very fast.
There is a knock at the door.
Hanataro opens the door and a man wheels a cart in with a teapot and two cups on it.
The man bows and leaves.
Hanataro pours blood into both cups.
Hanataro hands one cup to Rose.
Hanataro: You ready?
Rose: Yes.
Rose counts to three, and then takes a sip of the blood in her cup.
The blood flows down her throat.
Rose drinks the entire cup, in the next gulp.
Hanataro laughs and leans forward.
He brushes a speck of blood off of her cheek.
Rose looks into his eyes.
Hanataro looks into hers.
The world disappears around them.
Rose and Hanataro’s mind’s combine.
Hanataro tries to reach Rose’s section of her mind.
Rose puts a wall up.
Hanataro: (mind) Rose, please take your wall down. I want to know how you feel about me.
Rose: (mind) I can’t do that!
Hanataro: (mind) Rose, you can. Just let go. I will find some way to erase your past memories. I want to be your friend.
Rose hesitates, and then starts to bring down her wall.
A flash brings them back to real life.
Rose and Hanataro fall backwards.
Rangiku is standing in the doorway taking photos.
Rangiku: Gossip sites, watch out. Because Emma Black is coming back!
Rangiku laughs and walks off.
Rose looks up at Hanataro.
Rose: I don’t care anymore.
Hanataro: She can’t interrupt what happens between us.
Rose: Yes.
Hanataro: Rose?
Rose: Yeah?
Hanataro: I love you.
Rose stands up and walks over to Hanataro.
Hanataro stands.
Hanataro kisses Rose.
In the hallway there is a scream.
Hanataro continues to kiss Rose.
There are loud footsteps.
Rose breaks off and looks at the door.
The door flies open and Rangiku stomps in, face red.
Rangiku: I HAVE CAMERAS IN THIS ROOM YOU KNOW!!!!
Rose: I figured that out.
Rangiku reaches underneath her coat and pulls out a gun.
She points it at Rose.
Rangiku smiles evilly.
Rangiku: IT’S OVER ROSE MYERS!
Rose steps towards Rangiku.
Rose places her hand on Rangiku’s hand.
Rangiku drops the gun.
Rose reaches into Rangiku’s mind, with her mind.
Rose: (mind) Rangiku, I know everything now.
Rangiku: (mind) NO YOU DON’T! YOU WILL NEVER KNOW ANYTHING!!!
Rose: (mind) I know that he was important to you. You haven’t seen him for years.
Rangiku: (mind) What are you talking about! You know nothing about him!
Rose: (mind) You should give him a chance. I actually know where he lives. He misses you very much. Ever since you left him, he has been miserable, and Miranda did nothing good for him. She left him within a month. You were the best thing that happened to Dave.
Rangiku: (mind) Dave… he betrayed me to that Miranda hooker he met in a bar. He deserved what he got!
Rose: (mind) Don’t say that. You don’t mean it! You want to love him, like you did before. He is miserable without you. You decided to try to take Hanataro from me because you just want to hurt others, to make up for the grief and betrayal that has gathered in your heart. You just need to let the past be the past, and be yourself. Go back to him.
Rose comes out of Rangiku’s mind.
Rangiku is crying.
Rose smiles.
Rose: Just think about it.
Rangiku: From what I got from the cameras, you need to listen to what you just told me. Let the past be the past.
Rangiku picks up the gun and leaves.
Hanataro: What just happened there?
Rose looks at Hanataro.
Rose: It looks like I have a gift.
Rose smiles.
Hanataro shrugs and steps towards Rose.
Rose reaches for him and they embrace.
Episode 6

Rose is sitting on the couch with her head on Hanataro’s shoulder.
The phone rings.
Rose gets up and answers it.
Rose: Hello?
Rangiku: This is Rangiku. I wanted to tell you that you are free to leave training grounds now. Also, I would like to request your company in a trip to America to find Dave.
Rose: Uh…Okay. Sure, I’ll come.
Rangiku: Thank You. I’ll meet you at the front entrance to the building at midnight tomorrow night.
Rose: Okay.
Rose hangs up.
Hanataro: What’s going on?
Rose: Rangiku wants my company to America.
Hanataro: Wait! No, you can’t leave! I have to come with you!
Rose: She’s not going to let you come.
Hanataro: But, if you’re in America. She could kill you… or worse.
Rose: What’s worse than death?
Hanataro: When you’re a vampire, there’s a lot more that’s worse than death.
Rose: Oh. It’ll be alright.
Hanataro: Come with me…
Hanataro grabs Rose’s hand and a bag, and drags her in the bathroom.
He goes into the shower.
Rose: What are you doing?
Hanataro: Just get in.
Rose: Okay.
Rose gets in and he shuts the door.
Hanataro reaches into the bag and pulls out a gun.
Hanataro: (whispers) This gun can kill any vampire on contact with the bullets in it. I want you to have it. Keep it with you at all times!
Rose takes the gun.
Rose: (whispers) I will thank you. Why are we in the shower though?
Hanataro: (whispers) The cameras. I don’t know if she shut them off yet or not.
Rose: Ok
Rose and Hanataro get out of the shower.
Rose: I think I might go by my house and pick up some things to take with me.
Hanataro: Let me go with you. I’m going to stop by my house too.
Rose: Okay…
Rose and Hanataro go outside and get in a black car.
Hanataro drives to their town and drops Rose off at her house.
Rose: Thanks.
Hanataro: No problem. I’ll come back at noon.
Rose: Okay, I may go somewhere before then.
Hanataro: Okay. Have your gun?
Rose: Yes.
Hanataro nods and drives off.
Rose jumps up into the window of her bedroom.
She opens the window and climbs in.
Rose grabs a large travel bag from under her bed.
Rose packs clothes in it, and closes it.
Rose opens the door to her room and carefully sneaks down the hallway.
She cracks the door to her brother’s room open.
He isn’t there.
She goes downstairs.
She looks in the kitchen and finds that someone spilled Kool-Aid in the floor.
Rose inhales.
Rose: (thinks) Oh my god. That isn’t Kool-Aid.
Rose runs to the closet where the blood is seeping from and throws open the door.
Her mother and brother’s mangled bodies fall out.
Rose screams.
Rose pulls out her phone to call 911.
Rose: (thinks) Wait. I can’t call 911. A vampire could have done this. But why would anyone be after me?
Rose calls Hanataro.
Hanataro: Hello?
Rose hears a screaming baby in the background.
Rose: Hanataro. It’s me, Rose.
Hanataro: Oh! Rose! What’s the matter?
Rose: I went downstairs, and I found the bodies…of…of….
Hanataro: What?
Rose: The bodies of my brother and mother.
Hanataro: I’ll be right over.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
Hanataro runs into the kitchen where Rose is.
Hanataro sees Rose holding one of her brother’s hands and one of her mother’s hands.
Hanataro: The blood’s fresh.
Rose: What am I going to do?
Hanataro: We’re going to have to do some investigation of our own. For now though, I can just get a disposable phone and call the police on it. Then I can destroy the phone.
Rose: They’re all dead. And it’s all my fault.
Hanataro: Don’t say that, Rose. That’s not true.
Rose stands up and cuts him off angrily.
Rose: YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S TRUE!!!!! YOU ACT SO NICE TO ME, BUT IF YOU KNEW THE TRUTH YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE EVEN THOUGHT OF WANTING TO BE MY FRIEND. LET ALONE KISSING ME!!!!!
Hanataro: Calm down Rose.
Rose: NO! YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN. YOU ACT SO COOL, BUT INSIDE YOU’RE JUST SOME IDIOT WHO’S PROBABLY KILLED THOUSANDS!!! THEN YOU ACT SO CALM WHEN YOU SEE TWO DEAD PEOPLE!!!! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU??? DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY FEELINGS AT ALL????
Hanataro takes a step back and sighs.
Hanataro: I’m going to call the police at 7:00. You should get out of here before then. Make sure to remove any handprints, and if possible try to mess things up to make it look more suspicious.
Rose ignores him and goes on gripping their hands.
Hanataro turns and leaves.
AT 6:30
Rose: Mom, Brother. I love you both. I’ll figure out who did this. I promise. I will avenge you.
Rose takes a paper towel and cleans the places she touched.
Rose sighs and changes her clothes.
Rose jumps out the window as the police pull up in the driveway.
Rose adjusts the bag on her shoulder and runs out of view.
Rose lets herself cry.
Rose calls a taxi.
She gets in.
Driver: Where to?
Rose: To the East side of town, at the city limits.
The driver nods and starts to drive.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
The driver pulls up beside a bridge as it starts to rain.
Rose: Thanks.
Rose throws a twenty dollar bill at the driver and runs towards the bridge.
The driver drives off quickly.
Rose runs to the end of the bridge.
Rose suddenly stops.
A pain rips through her.
Rose screams.
She falls to her knees and twitches lying on the cold stone of the bridge, inches from the city limit.
Rose looks up and sees a figure floating above her.
The figure is a girl, and she is laughing.
The girl holds her hand out, the palm facing Rose.
Rose: Who… are … you?
Girl: A murderer. A very important woman. Your enemy. The one you hate. The one that killed what little family you have left.
Rose’s eyes widen.
Rose: You…
Girl: My daddy and your daddy are the same person. We’re kind of sisters. Whoops. Mommy left out a little secret didn’t she? Poor mommy paid the price for that. Now, you will pay too!
Rose opens her mouth to scream but no sound comes out.
Black dots fill Rose’s vision and she slowly drifts out